Rayon, just like every other
fabric requires to be well
taken care of and in a way that will maintain the
fabric
for a considerably long period of time. There is more to be done other
than washing in an attempt to keep
fabrics clean. This
makes it important for
fabric users to have a very good
understanding of how to keep
fabrics clean as this is
the only thing that will make the usage of the
fabric
to last for as long as the user may want.
In the process of removing stains from
fabrics, it should
be noted that different fibers react differently with the various types
of the stain removal products that we have around.
Different kinds of fabrics also react differently with various types of
washing solution during laundry. This is mainly due to the various chemical
make up of each of these fabrics. This simply indicates that a good understanding
of how to
clean the fabrics is highly essential.
To have this understanding, a
fabric user will need to
check the various labels tags attached to these
fabrics
before attempting to wash or remove stains from these
fabrics.
Like most
fabrics that we have around. Rayon too does
not fair well with bleach, especially if the bleach is highly concentrated.
Bleach contains mainly of chlorine and chlorine has a reduction effect
on
fabrics. It will make e
fabric to
become weakened.
Because of this only diluted bleach should be used in treating rayon fabric.
The dilution will help to reduce the concentration of the chlorine content
of bleach, thereby reducing its negative effect on the
rayon fabric.
Even after dilution, bleach should not be too constantly used on fabrics.
Remember that even diluted bleach still contains chlorine, overtime this
bleach will end up having a weakening effect on the
rayon fabric
leading to the
fabric’s wearing off and soon it will
begin to rip off. So, the usage of bleach on fabrics should be limited
to only the purpose of whitening and removal of stain.
The effect of temperature on
rayon fabric also needs
to be well understood. The higher the temperature with which the rayon
fabric is ironed the sooner the rayon
fabric becomes
damaged. When an extremely hot pressing iron is used to iron rayon fabric,
the fabric may soon become scorched, this scorching or yellowing of the
rayon
fabric is an indication of burning effect of the
highly hot pressing iron on them. A burnt
fabric, as
we all know will become useless.
For you to have a clean
fabric, you need also to take
good note of how clean the container you are using is. An unclean washing
bowl or laundry machine will only make the matter worse with the
fabric